The first Discipline studio CD moves quickly from delicate to demented. Singer Matthew Parmenter establishes pretty melodies over lyrics about uncomfortable and, at times, disturbing subjects. This is a good record and worth your attention, especially if you like older Genesis and do not mind the tension inherent in King Crimsons music. The name of the band might be like the eighties Crimson incarnation, the music is definitely different, more romantic, more melodic and not as neurotic.

Unfolded Like Staircase boasts three nearly fifteen-minute songs including the brilliant Canto IV (Limbo), as well as a twenty-two minute epic entitled Into the Dream. Discipline has become a mainstay of the international underground movement known as progressive rock. A few dozen radio shows around the world, and an equal number of prog-oriented publications have found in Discipline. and singer Matthew Parmenter an unflinching anti-commercialism and dedication to songwriting.

Jethro Tull was a unique phenomenon in popular music history. Their mix of hard rock; folk melodies; blues licks; surreal, impossibly dense lyrics; and overall profundity defied easy analysis, but that didn't dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and five platinum albums…

In a way this album has been over 40 years in the making. Duncan Mackay was playing in a club he started in Johannesburg called the Branch Office, the first venue in South Africa where you could go and hear Prog Rock. Georg Voros (although underage at the time) would go and listen to Duncan. 40 years on Georg approached Duncan to play on and mix a solo album. The Bletchley Park Project grew from this prior collaboration.

Fulminant, diverse and truly massive is the performance of the Berlin heavy-psychedelic quartet Samsara Blues Experiment (SBE) on their second album "Revelation & Mystery". The successor of their cult debut album "Long Distance Trip" was kept more compact and tightly arranged without having lost the bands enthusiasm, originality and passion for each note.On their quest for perfection SBE created a guitar-driven masterpiece, containing 7 songs in 47 minutes with no weak moments.
The spectrum of this musical journey ranges from grim 70s to early 80s Heavy/Space Metal roots to Classic Rock with flashes of Progressive Blues and the spherical sitar sounds of the 12 minute final blast…

This Italian band's sole legacy is a wonderful album of pure symphonic prog dominated by flute, with strong classical influences and a touch of jazz.
Buon Vecchio Charlie was formed in Rome in 1970 with a five-piece line-up featuring, along with Calabrò, Centofanti and Sangiorgio, bass player Walter Bernardi and percussionist Carlo Visca. After some first demos they could record with the new six-piece line-up the tracks for an album in Suono label's (of Opus Avantra fame) recording studio near Venice in 1972, with the help of Venetian Power guitarist Claes Cornelius, also an important session man at the time…

Air was an American jazz rock band. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1971 on Embryo Records. The four core band members were Tom Coppola (Hammond organ), John Siegler (bass), Mark Rosengarden (drums), and Googie Coppola (piano, vocals)…

Samsara Blues Experiment's highly successful debut, Long Distance Trip, was a blessing and a curse at the same time. In less than a year, they have become one of the most sought after acts on Europe's psychedelic rock scene, playing dozens of shows and headlining all the genre's major festivals. Since the album was a perfect blend of soaring and moody riffs, complemented by various sitar and organ tweaks, the pieces fused to create an all-encompassing journey that's still as effective today as it was on the day of the release. However, when the band started wandering in different territories to spread their sonic palette with Revelation & Mystery, they've been backstabbed by those fans who were anxious for a second part of LDT and refused to digest anything else…

T Lavitz may be best known as the 6 time Grammy nominated keyboardist of The Dixie Dregs, however his complete performance and teaching resumes are both extensive! When he isn't recording or performing live, T teaches at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. This brilliant DVD features a wide range of material including a private piano lesson with T, a mini-concert, the Rock and Beyond video, an instructional DVD-Rom and a range of live clips featuring fellow Dixie Dregs band mates Steve Morse, Rod Morgenstein, Jerry Goodman and Dave LaRue…

Among the many obscure British prog rock albums of the early '70s, Second Hand's Death May Be Your Santa Claus has to be one of the strangest, though not necessarily one of the best. While it's the kind of record likely to fire up genre enthusiasts, it's equally likely to inspire scorn from more general rock listeners unlikely to take a shine to its over the top frivolous absurdity…

7 for 4's new album starts with Diffusion, which introduces us with a mellow jazzy guitar line. 7 For 4 didn't change their recipe: as with the previous albums, it soon changes for a rock-metal style which could remind me of the band Royal Hunt without lyrics. It's always cut by jazzy lines on bass and guitar, hard to hate, really. It's followed by Indigo Dunes, where the keyboards have a sound similar to the ones used by Liquid Tension Experiment, and a similar use too. In Overall, this track has a slower tempo than most of what 7 for 4 gave us by the past, but it's nonetheless really interesting, especially when considering the basslines taking their places in there. A really balanced piece, one of the best on the CD in my opinion. …

It's been quite awhile since Wolfgang Zenk put out a new 7for4 album so this comes as a welcome surprise. As you may by now know, Zenk came to everyone's attention when he became a member of Sieges Even, redirecting their tech metal sound into fusion realms. 7for4 is his full on fusion vehicle and Splash is a total burner from beginning to end. For this album the band is down to a trio with Zenk also taking over on keyboards but it doesn't slow anything down. This is tasteful fusion with good positive energy.

Agilok & Blubbo [Recorded 1968] (2009). The Inner Space is the stuff of legend. This obscure outfit is best known as the early incarnation of Can and not much is known about them except it featured the core members of Can (Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit) and lasted just a few months before renaming themselves Can and releasing "Monster Movie". They left two ultra-obscure seven inches as their only recorded legacy and only the first of them is credited to The Inner Space, it contained two songs taken from the soundtrack of 1969's underground film Agilok & Blubbo…

Welcome to the latest mix of new progressive sounds on this equally new Prog magazine cover disc. IQ, Cheer-Accident, Fish On Friday, Miriodor and more.